It’s loads of fun to pick a draft slot and build a team(s) by ADP, or better still pick from several draft slots. You really get a handle on this year’s roster construction vis à vis the ADP’s.

Just don’t go thinking that your draft will go according to the ADPs.

So let’s start with pick No. 8, the middle of a 15-teamer.

In my 2019 drafts, I am going to take a starting pitcher with one of my first two picks. Not to take a pitcher at either is to dig yourself an immediate hole. Yes, you can win if you don’t, but you have to be extra-right on the pitchers you take later. After two picks that is an unnecessary burden. Furthermore, there is little to gain in taking two hitters. Is Bryce Harper really a better pick than Kris Bryant or Anthony Rizzo? If Andrew Benintendi has an edge over Juan Soto or Starling Marte, it’s not a big one. Compare them to the edge that Cole and Nola have over Zack Greinke and Jack...